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North Bristol NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 42,365 people were on the North Bristol NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (72%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RVJ

People waiting (all services)
42,365
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.5%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
55
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

55 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at North Bristol NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics6,25663%60.6%16+2.4 pp
Gynaecology5,60767%61.0%8+2.8 pp
Urology5,57575%65.0%0+6.9 pp
Neurology3,56363%61.7%0+0.5 pp
Dermatology2,76175%69.0%0-5.9 pp
Cardiology2,38469%68.2%0+1.6 pp
Plastic surgery2,34470%59.3%20+6.1 pp
Rheumatology1,21662%70.8%0+6.2 pp
Neurosurgery1,16880%62.8%0+9.4 pp
General surgery66872%63.0%1+15.9 pp
Respiratory medicine61198%74.8%0+4 pp
Gastroenterology43388%69.3%1+31.4 pp
Elderly medicine107100%83.1%0+1.5 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery12100%72.8%00 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at North Bristol NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.7 percentage points (66% to 72%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (70.7% in March 2026); up 5 points over 6 months (66.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202565.8%
August 202565.2%
September 202566.7%
October 202566.8%
November 202566.4%
December 202566.5%
January 202667.3%
February 202667.9%
March 202670.7%
April 202670.5%
May 202671.2%
June 202671.5%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for North Bristol NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202544,36065.8%164
August 202544,75665.2%187
September 202544,35866.7%149
October 202543,85766.8%140
November 202543,63266.4%127
December 202543,12666.5%91
January 202642,25467.3%106
February 202641,50867.9%65
March 202639,48770.7%38
April 202640,38770.5%29
May 202641,51871.2%41
June 202642,36571.5%55

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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